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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to note that Montessori is not a protected name, so you need to check whether they have an AMI or AMS certification. The schools need specific materials that cost a fortune for them, and their teachers are specially trained, so they're better paid than daycare or regular play-based preschools.

Montessori is a philosophy of education that is centered on a child-led, individual approach to exploring the practical world, and a rigorous, scientific-based method for learning intellectual skills. The Montessori curriculum for the early years is from 3 to 6 years old. Anything before that can also be a Montessori approach, but it won't be as fully fledged.

Montessori is not child led. Child let would be letting a child choose what they're interested in and letting them explore it however they want. Stripping your classroom of the things that a kid would usually choose, making most of what's there off limits, and then, when the child selects from the remaining small set of activities, insisting that they do it "right", is the opposite of child led, even if the kid can choose what color mat to sit on while they work.

I don't think you understand montessori. We did it for our daughtter at age 2.5 and I feel like she learned a lot of independence and patience. It is child led and the classroom had tons of stuff for the kids. No one was criticsing the kids on how they did things either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to note that Montessori is not a protected name, so you need to check whether they have an AMI or AMS certification. The schools need specific materials that cost a fortune for them, and their teachers are specially trained, so they're better paid than daycare or regular play-based preschools.

Montessori is a philosophy of education that is centered on a child-led, individual approach to exploring the practical world, and a rigorous, scientific-based method for learning intellectual skills. The Montessori curriculum for the early years is from 3 to 6 years old. Anything before that can also be a Montessori approach, but it won't be as fully fledged.

Montessori is not child led. Child let would be letting a child choose what they're interested in and letting them explore it however they want. Stripping your classroom of the things that a kid would usually choose, making most of what's there off limits, and then, when the child selects from the remaining small set of activities, insisting that they do it "right", is the opposite of child led, even if the kid can choose what color mat to sit on while they work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to note that Montessori is not a protected name, so you need to check whether they have an AMI or AMS certification. The schools need specific materials that cost a fortune for them, and their teachers are specially trained, so they're better paid than daycare or regular play-based preschools.

Montessori is a philosophy of education that is centered on a child-led, individual approach to exploring the practical world, and a rigorous, scientific-based method for learning intellectual skills. The Montessori curriculum for the early years is from 3 to 6 years old. Anything before that can also be a Montessori approach, but it won't be as fully fledged.

Montessori is not child led. Child let would be letting a child choose what they're interested in and letting them explore it however they want. Stripping your classroom of the things that a kid would usually choose, making most of what's there off limits, and then, when the child selects from the remaining small set of activities, insisting that they do it "right", is the opposite of child led, even if the kid can choose what color mat to sit on while they work.

Are you the Montessori-hater who trolls these boards?

Hmmmm, I don't know. I am a person who thinks there are better options in early childhood education than Montessori, and that people who are fans of Montessori often post false information, such as using the label "child led". If I'm a troll, because I come here frequently, end express opinions about education, then it would appear that you are too. Are you a Montessori-lover who trolls these boards? Or is this a place where different people can express opinions?

Marie Montessori observed that scientifically designed sets of materials with built-in controls (to allow the child to see for himself whether he got it right) was crucial for building critical thinking. This was never supposed to be play, but work to develop rigorous and logical thinking.

Which is fine, but it isn't child led. Child led is a word that means something very specific.

Children that age find it fun, and have a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment when they figure out these tasks. Modern Montessori preschools add music, theater, games, circle time, they invite entertainers, they pair kids so that one teaches the other, teachers have fun ways of doing short lectures, etc, to vary the core teaching, so it never gets boring. Child-led means that Montessori teachers allow the child to control as much as he can about his day
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Children in Montessori control very little compared to kids in programs that use a Developmentally Appropriate model, or a Reggio model, or other models often termed "play based".

- obviously there is a progression to the curriculum (you can't match the written labels to their pictures if you haven't done the movable alphabet, for example),

[b]The need for this progression isn't obvious. There's research that shows that kid who are allowed to guide the pace and sequence of their learning have long term gains, while the gains made by children who have academics forced on them, through Montessori or otherwise, disappear by the middle of elementary school.


meal-time and play-time, but within those parameters, children are supposed to choose activities themselves. The goal is independence and critical thinking development.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to note that Montessori is not a protected name, so you need to check whether they have an AMI or AMS certification. The schools need specific materials that cost a fortune for them, and their teachers are specially trained, so they're better paid than daycare or regular play-based preschools.

Montessori is a philosophy of education that is centered on a child-led, individual approach to exploring the practical world, and a rigorous, scientific-based method for learning intellectual skills. The Montessori curriculum for the early years is from 3 to 6 years old. Anything before that can also be a Montessori approach, but it won't be as fully fledged.

Montessori is not child led. Child let would be letting a child choose what they're interested in and letting them explore it however they want. Stripping your classroom of the things that a kid would usually choose, making most of what's there off limits, and then, when the child selects from the remaining small set of activities, insisting that they do it "right", is the opposite of child led, even if the kid can choose what color mat to sit on while they work.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Yes, I work. Don't really have a budget though. My MIL has generously offered to pay for care. She said to just find the best and she would pay for it 100%. I'm leaning towards daycare/montessori though so that my child can get out and meet other people. Thanks again everyone!

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to note that Montessori is not a protected name, so you need to check whether they have an AMI or AMS certification. The schools need specific materials that cost a fortune for them, and their teachers are specially trained, so they're better paid than daycare or regular play-based preschools.

Montessori is a philosophy of education that is centered on a child-led, individual approach to exploring the practical world, and a rigorous, scientific-based method for learning intellectual skills. The Montessori curriculum for the early years is from 3 to 6 years old. Anything before that can also be a Montessori approach, but it won't be as fully fledged.